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Lets say you use subversion on your home PC to keep track of projects and you want to checkout or export your project from a remote location. Here’s the catch, sshd is running on a custom port or forwarded from another. For some reason the command line SVN client does not support a port parameter when using the defacto svn+ssh://

Well we know why the error above happens its because I happen to run SSH on port 1337. The following work around requires root privileges, and may mess with your system a bit but if you really need to check something out, then it will work.

As root, login and stop SSH if you run it. With SSH Forward port 22 with a local SSH forwarding connection to the remote host.

Once this is done, your localhost:22 now forwards to your remote host. With another session (on your local machine) you can verify the connection by using ssh localhost. You will probably get warnings about the hosts identity being changed, or not verifying it, but you can ignore then. Once you’ve tested it, just use SVN as normal. When finished, remember to logout of the SSH session, and start SSH back up again if you run it.